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Thursday, 26 July 2012

Chances are, you’ve heard of them, they caused quite a few ripples in the blogosphere, so I am not telling you anything you don’t already know. BUT, if that’s not the case – read on

They used to be known as Dive (inspired by Nirvana’s song, and by the fact that everyone in the band is a water sign – of the zodiac kind), formed by a combo of ingredients from Beach Fossils and Smith Westerns: Zachary Cole Smith (formed the band – in his bedroom, is of the Beach Fossils), joined by Devin Ruben Perez on bass, Andrew Bailey on guitar, and Colby Hewitt (formerly of Smith Westerns) on drums.

I have to say, I am not a particular fan (if push came to shove and I had to chose - Smith Westerns win), so I was surprised to find DIIV does not sound anything like either.

Shoegazed dreampop, my kind of summer music, they sprung to life in 2011, released their debut LP – “Oshin” in June 2012, influenced by Krautrock, C86 bands, Nirvana of course and, erm – world music – Baba Salah to be precise.

I am still trying to form an opinion of the whole album, but Doused is keeping me from listening to the rest of it.

When you press play...

...up there on the left,
you will hear (in random order):
Desert Stars;
The Band in Heaven;
Grooms;
Mode Moderne;
ArtClassSink;
The Boxing Plot.
mini playlist changes every Friday,
you can find all the bands on SoundCloud.
oh and PS you can click on the camels,
they will take you places ;)